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April 15. Can Curiosity Kill Complacency?
Curiosity might have gotten a kitten in trouble, but it is a super growth tool.
Curiosity kills complacency, not cats. As a leader or entrepreneur your team probably has routines and systems that it uses. The use of them quickly creates habits as our brains create neural networks as we learn. But as valuable as these habits are, they are also restrictive.
They hold our value proposition where it is set today. They do not advance or grow future value. A farmer who plants a field will experience a crop because of how much water, sun, and nutrients the plants can use. The repetition from year to year will get the same result which is a crop.
But to have exponential growth there must be an intervention. There must be a point where we stop to be curious about what is normal. Normal is the habit. It is the past. It is the commodity approach. But curiosity is the intervention. It has a future based impact. It is the exponential growth approach.
To accelerate collaboration, we can use curiosity to explore possibilities for the leader and the team. Where might you be stuck in the past as a leader with habits? The results of those habits could be just what your team might be putting value on and be delivering. Changing the habits results is a change of value. Where might it be time to challenge yourself this week by being curious?
As Christians, we live life with our habits as well. Some of our habits help us to draw closer to Jesus while others do not. But our set of habits will draw us to different depths. We are susceptible to the same limitations of habits in our faith as other areas of life.
We read, "Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” Luke 17:30 NLT. We have the power today to be curious now. Being curious in our faith journey might allow us to study the Bible more, read a devotion, or attend worship without any excuse.
It takes an intervention though. Where do you want to grow this year? Maybe all we need to do is to be curious for a little bit to break the cycle. I would bet that if Jesus came today, it would get our attention and our sense of curiosity would allow us to change the pattern of our activity.
So why wait? I am curious. How would you answer the question, “I wonder how one could enhance their prayer life for just one day?” The only thing stopping us from something new is ourselves. Something new can start with a session of curiosity. What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?
Let us pray, Heavenly Father, your wonders are shared with us on your terms. It is often that we do not hear the small still voice. Sometimes we can miss the obvious lightening and thunderous moments of our life in Christ.
Help us to be able to step aside for a moment and be curious about Christ. Let us be curious as to how to be more compassionate, more loving, and how to grow our relationships with him. Thank you for giving us a sense of curiosity. May we use our curiosity to glorify your name.
I wonder how you will touch me and my sphere of influence today? We pray that you do so. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,
